Western Esotericism Quotes

“Human beings are vulnerable to illness because they are born in a fallen state, for which Paracelsus had invented the term cagastrum, and therefore the attainment of health ultimately implies spiritual as well as bodily regeneration towards a state of purification. Healing means ultimately reversing the Fall.”
― Wouter J. Hanegraaff, Western Esotericism: A Guide for the Perplexed

“He rejected the modern world and all its values as the absolute antithesis of Tradition, and spent the last decades of his life as a Sufi recluse in Egypt.”
― Wouter J. Hanegraaff, Western Esotericism: A Guide for the Perplexed